Some doodles I did on the side yesterday night ( @blesstale drew Zunde that there ) including Dreby taking his first steps. I saw this kid screaming “NOOOO!” at some meat in a grocery store before running to his mom, so there we go ✌️

There are so many different storylines because ultimately everything is connected. But at first what you’re seeing is all these different characters who could absolutely be the stars of their own show. So it looks like they are completely disconnected and have no effect on each other whatsoever. - Samuel Barnett

what do you think of catherine of aragon? and do you blame anne for what happened to her? sometimes i wish they could've been friends :/

I love CoA. I think she’s fantastic and she doesn’t get nearly enough credit for being the badass that she was. I mean, being named Regent in England, successfully defeating a Scottish invasion while Henry was off fighting in France, riding up to address the soldiers in full armor, sending her husband the bloody cloak of the defeated Scottish king, and doing all of this while pregnant?

And that’s only one episode in her life! That doesn’t even get into the courage it took to leave for England at fifteen and to survive there in the years after Arthur’s death, or her subsequent position as the first female Spanish ambassador to England, or her fiery speeches during Henry’s “Great Matter” or her incredibly strong will in refusing to give in during the years that followed, signing her letters “Catherine the Queen” until her death. My god, give this woman a movie.

As for the miserable turn her life took, no, I don’t blame Anne for that. I blame Henry. Frankly I feel like the blame for almost everything should lie with Henry, because he was the king. Even if you believe, as some still do (I emphatically do not), that Anne was a relentless social climber who seduced Henry into falling in love with her, it was still his choice to pursue her. It was his choice to seek a divorce. It was his choice to break away from Rome and treat Catherine and Mary horribly. And, ultimately, it was his choice to throw Anne away like garbage as well.

Catherine and Anne were both amazing women who ended up victimized by their despicable king and husband. Hopefully they could bond over that in the afterlife, if nothing else.